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Princeton's WordNet

  1. surf, breaker, breakersnoun

    waves breaking on the shore

Wikipedia

  1. Breakers

    Breakers is a song by indie rock band Local Natives, from the band's second studio album Hummingbird. The song was released as a single on October 18, 2012.

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  1. breakers

    Breakers generally refer to waves that break into foam when they approach the shoreline, but the term is also used in other fields to denote different meanings. For instance, in electronics, a breaker refers to a device designed to interrupt an electric circuit to prevent excess current, like a circuit breaker. It can also refer to people or things that break or destroy something. The specific definition depends on the context in which it's being used.

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  1. Breakers

    Breakers is an Australian television series, that was made and aired on Network Ten between 1998 and 1999. It was shown in Ireland on TV3 and City Channel. It was also screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom and TV4 in New Zealand.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. breakers

    Small barrels for containing water or other liquids; they are also used in watering the ship as gang-casks. (See BAREKA.) Also, those billows which break violently over reefs, rocks, or shallows, lying immediately at, or under, the surface of the sea. They are distinguished both by their appearance and sound, as they cover that part of the sea with a perpetual foam, and produce loud roaring, very different from what the waves usually have over a deeper bottom. Also, a name given to those rocks which occasion the waves to break over them.--Breakers ahead! the common pass-word to warn the officer of broken water in the direction of the course. (See also SHIP-BREAKER.)

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Breakers in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Breakers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Breakers in a Sentence

  1. Tommy Ford:

    They come to prey off the spring breakers.

  2. Mayor Sheldon:

    Some of these same criminals who came to Bay County Sheriff Office this weekend were in Miami last weekend ; we know the exact people, these criminals are traveling from town to town, so it's nobody new. It's just a bad group of folks who are trying to be lawless in every community they can find. MIAMI BEACH VIOLENCE DRIVEN BY GUN-TOTING SPRING BREAKERS COMING IN BY CAR The gunfire on Sunday left one person injured, shocking many in the community.

  3. Elonka Dunin:

    Our Kryptos community is made up of people all around the world. We have thousands of people that are interested in Kryptos -- either cracking Our Kryptos community, or helping to see Our Kryptos community cracked, some of them are professional code breakers. Some of them are students.

  4. President Barack Obama:

    After World War Two, we had seven ice breakers and now we only have two. Russia has 40 and 11 more planned, in light of the changes taking place, some of which (are) already happening and inevitable, it's important we are prepared.

  5. Joel Leja:

    The revelation that massive galaxy formation began extremely early in the history of the universe upends what many of us had thought was settled science, we’ve been informally calling these objects ‘universe breakers’ — and they have been living up to their name so far.

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